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Fitness Studio Opens in H-burg

Proper equipment is fundamental in a fitness studio. For people in search of a good workout, so is variety and new challenge.

Shape of You Fitness Studio held its grand opening at 311 Allegheny St. in early August with the promise of delivering on all those fundamentals.

Owner Delsie Detwiler must have found the right combination. This is her second grand opening this year. She opened her first Shape of You studio in February on Montgomery Street, and has already had to relocate for expansion.

What makes this fitness studio different are a combination of equipment coupled with can-do instructors who truly believe in everyone who comes through the door. Just walk in (take your shoes off first) and experience the difference. Metal poles floor to ceiling grace the large front studio just inside the front door.

Shape of You is a pole dancing fitness studio filled with a self-proclaimed fierce tribe of people. Their culture is to be extremely supportive and accepting of one another. Anyone who walks in the door can do pole. They want to see everyone succeed, to help students gain core strength, flexibility and self-confidence.

Megan Maserati, instructor and student, uses pole dancing for exercise.

"I started coming here because I hate going to the gym," Maserati said. "My old bones and joints don't like it. I got so bored doing exercise videos in my house that I couldn't do it anymore."

Maserati's friend Nicole Steiner (also an instructor) invited her to attend a class and she was hooked.

"Pole dancing combines music and dance and you get strong so quickly, it's amazing," Maserati said.

Detwiler has been teaching on the big pole for five years, with pole experience spanning 25 years. She hopes to expand Shape of You to Altoona and State College.

In the Hollidaysburg studio, Detwiler offers eight levels of pole dancing, plus nine different pole classes, ranging from intro to pole, fabpole, strong pole, to Children Only Next Generation SOY and X2 Doubles. SOY also offers flex room classes including chair dance, Buti Yoga, Basic Yoga and flexibility classes.

The studio opens daily at 11 a.m. To register for classes, call Detwiler at (814) 505-2519, or go to Shape of You Fitness Studio on Facebook and Instagram.

 

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